does this silly bible story make any sense after you take off your rose-colored glasses?.
moses comes down from the mountain with two freshly made tablets of stone written with the finger of god.
one commandment on the stone tablet reads '' you must not kill/murder.
Samson was another fine piece of work. Tying two foxes together, 300 of them, putting a burning torch on their tails and setting them loose to burn the grain fields of his enemies. It would have been easier and more humane to just go out there himself, but no. He wanted to be cruel to the foxes too.
Another asshole.
does this silly bible story make any sense after you take off your rose-colored glasses?.
moses comes down from the mountain with two freshly made tablets of stone written with the finger of god.
one commandment on the stone tablet reads '' you must not kill/murder.
Moses was an asshole
since june 2016 i have kept a journal of my encounters with jehovah's witnesses at my door or in my street.
i'm a a nosey bastard and a bit of a home body when i'm not at work so i don't miss much of who comes past my home or knocks at the door.. will and dill.. they came to my door on a wednesday morning around 10:30am mid june 2016, i was on afternoon shift and had been reading bart ehrman "misquoting jesus".. what follows is the conversation as best i could recount after they left;.
of the two young gentlemen, dillon, the younger in appearance introduced will and himself, he then proceeded to present me with a brochure about world conditions supposedly getting worse.. me: i could stand at the door nodding in agreement if you like?
This "lifesaving work" is well illustrated by their mad rush to have a meaningful discussion with ones who have left the fold. I think a couple of the locals came by to say "we miss you," but never to actually attempt to heal or "minister" to the wounds.
It seems that people like us, who once were active and robust members of the congregation of god, would get tended to more so than the ones who really don't give a rat's ass about the whole thing. It was hard to fade away from the "friendships" in the congregation. I am careful NOT to say anything that might cause distress to a Witness when I see them, out of consideration for their choice. People have to figure things out for themselves.
It's too bad that they are so afraid of hearing anything out of synch with their beliefs.
the current “news” on jw.borg.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/.
look closely at he picture of “russian” police breaking in to what appears to be a utility shed.. first, you’d have to be a complete moron to believe anything you see.. the “police” are shown using a garden pic to open a door.
JWRogue, my feelings exactly. The trick for the all-in JW is to sort out the staged pictures and videos from the real ones.
I suppose that to merely suggest that there are posed, fake pictures is the same as apostasy to those in denial.
jehovah's witnesses aren't the only group whose forecasts, predictions, scare-stories, and data jumbling go awry.take a look:https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions.
what's interesting in the above article is that it is eerily familiar to jw'swho debunk false teachings.
the reprinted news-clippings have strong impactand lend gravitas to the argument.what argument?there's a huge difference between science and bullshit because scienceis supposed to test its hypotheses.well - failure is a pretty good test.. 1967: dire famine forecast by 1975.
But wait! It's not all doom and despair! The Earth will be a Paradise by now!
the current “news” on jw.borg.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/.
look closely at he picture of “russian” police breaking in to what appears to be a utility shed.. first, you’d have to be a complete moron to believe anything you see.. the “police” are shown using a garden pic to open a door.
Thank you, Smiddy. Exactly. The only news that we get from WT is news that supports the present agenda.
They cherry-puck their quoted statements, breaking them up with ellipses so that they sound more like what they want them to sound like.
I don't understand why Corney has a problem with that. It's a common practice, done by politicians and religions both. Denial won't make it stop. It only puts you out there in Lalaland.
amazing music, recorded globally, check them out.
great music is universal.. the weight | featuring robbie robertson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1gu1qq1zq.
My favorite
did you know that when einstein attended some conferences in the numerous universities of the usa, the recurring question that the students asked him was:.
- do you believe in god?.
and he always answered:.
I studied Spinoza in college. One of the students, a hard-core Christian, was offended by Spinoza. He chimed in to the discussion, trying to make a point for Jesus and God. The teacher says, "if your God is so perfect, why is there tooth decay?" The kid was shattered.
Unfortunately for me, a few years later the Witnesses came along with a pseudo-answer to that question and I got hooked in.
while i enjoyed eddie's music, ric was quite important to me.
my best memories of my youth were to a cars soundtrack.
my first "naughty" car (tr7) had a cassette player precariously balanced in the hole in the dash and the cars were in it more than anything else..
I had a TR-4. Wish I still did! I missed the cars when they were hot, but once I discovered them I played their music all the time.
the current “news” on jw.borg.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/.
look closely at he picture of “russian” police breaking in to what appears to be a utility shed.. first, you’d have to be a complete moron to believe anything you see.. the “police” are shown using a garden pic to open a door.
Last man, I came to realize that ALL of the pictures in the WT publications are staged. They all have subtle little aspects that he Witnesses pick apart as though it had been a candid , spontaneous picture. Spontaneity is not welcome among the Witnesses. You might even say that the pictures are dishonest.
